John L Spivak

Honorable Spy John L Spivak

Prepared for publication by Joe Henry Mitchell: The Book and the Author The famous reporter-detective, John L. Spivak, author of Secret Armies and America Faces the Barricades, has scored another sensational exposure in Honorable Spy. As in Secret Armies, which focused local and official attention on Nazi spy activities, Spivak gives names, dates and places. Evidence of his accuracy is already plain in the frantic shiftings of registration of Japanese "fishing boats," operating off the West Coast, the shifts and registrations occurring just after the author published some of these findings in a periodical. If Japan is colonizing in strategic military areas just south of the United States border, Americans should know about it. If fuel oil for submarines is being cached within easy striking distance of American naval bases, we cannot overlook the intent of such moves. The information gathered in Spivak's latest book points toward an enormous net, which is being spun around areas vital to American defense. Unlike the Nazis, who specialize mainly in internal disruption, the Japanese apparently lean toward direct military plans of attack, but Spivak found both Nazi and Japanese agents working together in the common aim to defeat the interest of this government. However, the author cautions against loose talk about "yellow peril." The real peril, it seems to him, "lies either in ignorance of what the secret agents are doing, or in indifference, because we feel ourselves too strong to be perturbed by their activities." That is why this book was written.